The best work of Terry Dowling, Australia’s master of fantasy, will be released in two elegant volumes published by quality independent publisher, Ticonderoga Publications.
The two volumes, Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear and Make Believe: A Terry Dowling Reader, collect thirty stories from Dowling’s almost 30-year career.
Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear was first published in 2006, selling out its print run and winning the International Horror Guild Award for Best Collection. This new release will be the first Australian publication of a collection, described by the American Library Association as “One of the best recent collections of contemporary horror.”
Basic Black was also nominated for the Stoker Award for Best Collection.
Make Believe comprises 12 stories hand-picked by editor Russell B. Farr to showcase the best of Dowling’s SF and fantasy, including work from his acclaimed Rynosseros and Wormwood cycles.
Renowned French surrealist Paul Delvaux’s “La Vénus Endormie” provides a stunning cover for Make Believe.
For true aficionados and collectors, 100 copies of each volume will released as a numbered hardcover edition, each one signed by Terry Dowling.
Trade paperback editions of each title will be available in time for Christmas.
Dowling’s fiction has won 21 national and international awards: eleven Ditmar and four Aurealis Awards (two of them Convenors’ Awards for Excellence), an Australian Shadows Award, the International Horror Guild Award and two Readercon Awards in the US, a Prix Wolkenstein in Germany and a Grand Prix at Utopiales 2001 in France. He has received three World Fantasy Award nominations and a 2007 Stoker nomination for Best Collection.
These landmark volumes are available for pre-order from Indie Books Online
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